U.S. Higher Education under Siege: Freedom of Inquiry and Speech at Risk
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, high-tech society. The...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and the Writers/Actors Strike: Why You Should Care
The two primary issues in the Writers Guild and SAG/AFTRA strikes are streaming and artificial intelligence. In my judgement, the AI issue, in the long term, is the fundamental issue. But, let me begin with streaming. STREAMING. In the 1950s, Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...
WAR in the 21st Century: Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Private Armies
In 2022, 407 billion US dollars of the Pentagon budget – representing half of that year’s funding – were obligated to private contractors of which a significant number were Private Military Companies (PMCs) involved in combat operations. According to the Congressional...
The Panama Papers: Rogue Capitalism Robbing Your Wallet
On April 03, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] started publishing almost twelve million files of leaked documents revealing the details of tax havens sheltering more than one trillion dollars from legitimate governing taxing...
67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
This year the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women has as its special focus the digital world and how it is affecting women. We all are aware that the internet has had a tremendous impact, both positively and negatively. In PEN the internet...
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